The extensive consultation process (Redesign Consultation process) with Aboriginal people initiated by the Australian Federal Government in 2009 in order to discuss the provisions of the unpopular and allegedly racially discriminatory Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) and identify them as special measures is considered severely inadequate. It is suggested that the NTER Redesign Consultation process has not involved the affected Indigenous communities in its design and implementation and hence would only be a formal gesture rather than a genuine intention to help the affected people.

Well-documented health disparities between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (hereafter referred to as Aboriginal) and non-Aboriginal Australians are underpinned by complex historical and social factors. The effects ...

The history of the education of Aboriginal children in NSW since 1788 and in other states of Australia, covers periods of major policy shifts that until the late 1960s saw Aboriginal children suffer under a system of ...

Background: Pneumonia is a common cause of hospitalization in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women. Aim: This article seeks to describe the importance of immunizing against pneumonia in Aboriginal Australians ...